Goofing Off Quotes

• Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

  Sarah Vowell

  Voting, Paying Taxes, Citizenship

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be?

  Alyson Noel

  Funny But True, Fundamentals, Crowds

  7 Copy quote

• As we approach the millennium with sort of the idea that society is going to start spiraling into chaos, I'd love to be making jokes about that. Who wants to miss out on that? If the world is going to end, I want to be there the night before, goofing off.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Ideas, Missing

  4 Copy quote

• I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

  Larry Wall

  Development, Want, Paid

  4 Copy quote

• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  Lamorne Morris

  Mother, Hero, Mean

  "Out to Lunch With: Lamorne Morris, Who Spills on His Bad Church Behavior and Worst Date Ever" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

  John R. Erickson

  Hard Work, Way, Beats

  John R Erickson, John R. Erickson (1988). “The original adventures of Hank the Cowdog”, Texas Monthly Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source